penality
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See penalty.
Noun[edit]
penality (countable and uncountable, plural penalities)
- The quality or state of being penal; liability to punishment.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- Many of the Ancients denied the Antipodes, and some unto the penality of contrary affirmations
- 2020, Roger Hopkins Burke, Contemporary Criminological Theory:
- penality is not merely an effect or a specific result of neoliberalism but is a core defining feature.
References[edit]
- “penality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.